Word: canandaigua
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...official Church News of Salt Lake City published the letter last month. It was written by Martin Harris, a farmer who lived near Palmyra, N.Y. Harris was Smith's first convert outside the prophet's family. Addressed to a Canandaigua, N.Y., newspaper editor who later joined the sect, the document describes a version of the foundations of Mormonism that differs markedly from the official account written by Smith in 1838. The letter, discovered in 1983 | and donated to the church last month by a Utah businessman, depicts Smith as a man influenced by folk magic and occultism. This appears...